Firefox Addons To Protect And Manage Your Online Privacy

Privacy: A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people. To put it another way its information about people not secluded by others. Privacy in online a myth.

Here is a strong reason to call it a myth.

For the most part users in the online surf, the web through the privacy modes or incognito modes on their web browsers and believe their surfing is private. But it’s not. Certainly, they can still be tracked by all means with a technology called Browser Fingerprinting. A browser fingerprint is a unique fingerprint of your web browser. It’s similar to finger print of a person.

In addition, users who are conscious about the privacy will go for paid VPN (Virtual Private Network) services. They are in the hope that they are protected. Although, it’s not.

Besides the VPN service providers may sell your browsing data (a very few, but not all). In fact here is an example of such VPN provider in news. Seeing accused of violating users’ privacy (https://www.cnet.com/news/hotspot-shield-vpn-privacy-accusation/).

Now, for this reason, one should definitely agree that online privacy is a myth. But, you can be smart on privacy with a collection of Firefox addons.

Here is the collection of 20 Firefox addons. These are designed to help and give you furthermore control of your personal information.

Firefox Addons:

AdBlock:

Now save some of your time and bandwidth with AdBlock. It blocks all the advertisements on all web pages. Even though Facebook, and YouTube.

Created by AdBlock

Available on: Chrome, Firefox, Edge Safari as well as Android

BetterPrivacy-signed:

Controls a new, trickier kind of cookie. As well as known as a Local Shared Object (LSO) or Flash cookie. In the first place, it offers various ways to handle Flash-cookies. In the event that is created by web pages with the help of user Flash plug-in.

Created by IKRG

Available on: Firefox

Bloody Vikings! :

In the first place, it protects user real e-mail address from spam. As can be seen, this is done by creating disposable email addresses in the web browser. As a matter of fact, it simplifies the use of temporary e-mail addresses and supports inter alia 10minutemail.com and anonbox.net.

Created by Florian Fieber

Available on: Firefox

Blur:

It is similar to a password manager and protects user Passwords, Payments, and Privacy.

Created by Abine, Inc., the online privacy company

Available on: Chrome, Firefox, and Opera

Clear Console:

Clears all of the cache, cookies, history, html5/local storage, and HTTP logins at one click.

Created by Rejah Rehim A A, Sreenath Sasikumar, others

Available on: Firefox

Disconnect:

Lets user to visualize and block the invisible sites that track search and browsing history. Now make the web browsing faster, more private, and secure with Disconnect.

Created by Disconnect

Available on: Chrome, Firefox, and Opera

Disconnect for Facebook™:

An efficient firewall to disconnect third-party websites from accessing user Facebook account. Not only that but also prevents Facebook from tracking the user web pages.

Created by Morni Colhkher

Available on: Chrome, Firefox

DuckDuckGo Plus:

It’s a search engine that does not track its user’s activities. This add-on makes user default search engine as DuckDuckGo upon its installation.

Created by DuckDuckGo

Available on: Firefox, Chrome, Opera as DuckDuckGo

FoxyProxy Standard:

An advanced proxy management tool that simplifies browsers configuring to access proxy-servers. On the positive side, use FoxyProxy for a simple and less advanced configuration options.

Conclusion: Given these points once should be able to manage their online privacy easily. Hope you enjoyed reading the article Firefox Addons. Like us on Facebook and follow on Twitter (@InfoSeekOut) for more updates.